Just for fun --- how many photos taken in your ifetime: I am not a professional, but avid prosumer. I estimate that I have taken 200,000 to 250,000 photos. Most of these are digital.

lrm Loc: Sarasota, FL

I am not a professional, but avid prosumer. I estimate that I have taken 200,000 to 250,000 photos. Most of these are digital. With film I was much more judicious. In film days, a one week trip would produce 300 or so photos. With digital the same trip would produce 3,000 photos (with the vast majority being trashed). A pro friend estimates 1.5 million. How about you?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

A bunch!

anotherview Loc: California

Probably under 10,000. But 2000 I've deemed worthy enough to post online: anotherview2@500px.com

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Flickr says I've uploaded 13,439.

Lightroom says I have 98,309 cataloged.

I'm heading out to watch people jump in Lake Michigan for charity, expecting to fill a card around 1200 and hopefully keep 60ish when done editing. If that 5% keeper ratio existed for the near 20 years of digital images now in LR, that's roughly 1.97-million captures as of last night.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

In the old film days if you got a few keepers on a 36 roll you did well

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

Don't know and will never find out. Have thousands of slides (no telling how many I threw out) and lost a hard drive about 12 years ago and last year filled a 5TD drive and went to a 8TB drive.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Longshadow wrote:

A bunch!

Me too! Especially when our boys were young, and now when we go and see them and the grandkids are willing to "look at the birdie."

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Morning Star wrote:

Me too! Especially when our boys were young, and now when we go and see them and the grandkids are willing to "look at the birdie."

davyboy Loc: Anoka Mn.

lrm wrote:

I am not a professional, but avid prosumer. I estimate that I have taken 200,000 to 250,000 photos. Most of these are digital. With film I was much more judicious. In film days, a one week trip would produce 300 or so photos. With digital the same trip would produce 3,000 photos (with the vast majority being trashed). A pro friend estimates 1.5 million. How about you?

Is a snapshot considered a photo?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

davyboy wrote:

Is a snapshot considered a photo?

To me it is, it's not a ricosernous.

Still a photo.

Now if more adjectives were used, that may be a different story:
Good Photos;
Excellent Photos;
Sold Photos;
...

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

Quite a few. I've be at this 54+ years!

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Interesting thought but the hits are more important than the at-bats.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Fotoartist wrote:

Interesting thought but the hits are more important than the at-bats.

Interesting interpretation.

It just said photos.
It didn't differentiate between the good, bad, and the ugly.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

I have taken every one of my photographs

JD750 Loc: SoCal

CHG_CANON wrote:

Flickr says I've uploaded 13,439.

Lightroom says I have 98,309 cataloged.

I'm heading out to watch people jump in Lake Michigan for charity, expecting to fill a card around 1200 and hopefully keep 60ish when done editing. If that 5% keeper ratio existed for the near 20 years of digital images now in LR, that's roughly 1.97-million captures as of last night.

So you delete the other 95% only keep the 5% in lightroom?